Copyright law also doesn’t allow them to download the entirety of a piracy database of books. But here we are, they clearly don’t care about copyright law.
They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:
Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.
Copyright law doesn’t allow them to sell the books. It’s almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.
Copyright law also doesn’t allow them to download the entirety of a piracy database of books. But here we are, they clearly don’t care about copyright law.
They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law: